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  "thread": {
    "id": 1229,
    "subject": "razors here 'n' there",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-10-29T13:47:01+00:00",
    "last": "1998-10-29T13:47:01+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0021-0005@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-29T13:47:01+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: (whorl) razors here 'n' there",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Mantis wrote:\nThis scene contains much.  That the soldier stares into the water\nlike Narcissus is one thing, but that it later turns out he somehow\nlooks like a male form of Jolenta (Severian shows him his face in a\nmirror and asks him if it is like the one of the most beautiful woman\nin the world; \"Miles\" says yes; then Severian tells him Jolenta is\ndead [ch. 6]) is an additional puzzle piece which I don't think has\never been addressed.  (Is the body \"Miles\" therefore literally the\nbrother of Jolenta?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Severian omits a number of important details from his narrative, but I\ncan't believe he could stumble across a dead soldier who looked like\nJolenta's twin brother and not mention the fact. I think the\nsignificance of the mirror incident is that -Miles- sees Jolenta's face,\nnot that Severian does. It's a confirmation of Severian's otherwise\nfantastic mental leap to the conclusion that Miles has been possessed by\nJonas: the soldier's sense of self is so slight that when he looks in\nthe mirror all he sees is the object of Jonas's obsession. \n\nIn which case it's not Narcissus staring into the water, but Echo - the\none who pined away for love of that self-centred little flower."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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